Verge Network

8 Thoughts to Encourage Your Kids in Schoolwork

So often we forget this simple truth: God is a working God who created us to work. And the “us” means all of us, our grade school, middle school, and high school kids included.

Helping Your Children Fight Procrastination

A.J. Watson 8 min read

None of the typical motivations against procrastination - good grades, money, better friendships - can compare to giving your kids’ tasks eternal significance.

Kids and Missional Communities – A Third Place

John Murchison 4 min read

A Third Place is a place where your Christian community and your friends that do not believe in Jesus can connect with each other.

Be The Father You Want To Be

Verge Network 3 min read

Most guys fail to parent their children well because they don’t know how to parent themselves.

Kids and Missional Communities – The Family Meal

John Murchison 2 min read

The Family Meal is less like a Sunday School class that happens to meet in a home and more like a gathering of extended family over food. And kids are welcome!

The “How” of Kids and Missional Communities – An Introduction

John Murchison 3 min read

Being a family in a Missional Community is not only possible, but helps both your internal mission to your kids and your external mission to others.

Three Ways To Be On Mission With Your Kids This Easter

John Murchison 3 min read

We best share God's love with others by entering into their world rather than asking them to come into ours. However, Easter is a different story.

The Missional Youth Group

Trevin Wax 7 min read

The best way to ground young people in the Word and to empower them for future ministry is to involve them in a mission-based youth group.

What most families need is not to do more things, but do live out their calling as a missionary in the things they are already doing. To be on mission, families don't need a shift in activity, but a shift in identity.